Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:33:25 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current) Subject: Re: ppp & signals pending Message-ID: <19970312223325.PX15962@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970312114618.674A-100000@nagual.ru>; from ??????????????? on Mar 12, 1997 11:47:18 %2B0300 References: <19970311234832.KY35137@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970312114618.674A-100000@nagual.ru>
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As Andrey wrote: > > Acquiring a controlling tty different from the current one is only > > possible by allocating a new session first (setsid()), which is only > > possible by forking first. Thus, only a true daemon can do it. > > IIJPPP doesn't always want to be a true daemon. > > It does fork/setsid, but not change controlling terminal to modem (CTTY). It doesn't always fork/setsid. If you call it ``ppp somesite'', without any flags, it stays in the foreground, and makes heavy use of its controlling tty. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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